|
View Poll Results: April 2010 Mobile Read Book Club Vote | |||
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald | 19 | 25.33% | |
Topper by Thorne Smith | 5 | 6.67% | |
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole | 10 | 13.33% | |
My man Jeeves by P G Wodehouse | 2 | 2.67% | |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain | 7 | 9.33% | |
Fool by Christopher Moore | 3 | 4.00% | |
Augustus Carp, Esq. - Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man by Henry Bashford | 0 | 0% | |
A Damon Runyon Omnibus | 1 | 1.33% | |
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore | 10 | 13.33% | |
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde | 16 | 21.33% | |
Candide by Voltaire | 2 | 2.67% | |
Voters: 75. You may not vote on this poll |
|
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
03-29-2010, 11:03 AM | #106 |
Wizard
Posts: 4,395
Karma: 1358132
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: UK
Device: Palm TX, CyBook Gen3
|
|
03-29-2010, 12:00 PM | #107 |
Wizard
Posts: 2,409
Karma: 4132096
Join Date: Sep 2008
Device: Kindle Paperwhite/iOS Kindle App
|
I really disliked The Eyre Affair when I tried it. Way pretentious and trying much too hard to be clever. I am rooting for 'Lamb.'
|
Advert | |
|
03-29-2010, 12:20 PM | #108 |
Wizard
Posts: 3,490
Karma: 5239563
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Denmark
Device: Kindle 3|iPad air|iPhone 4S
|
Heh That's more or less what I felt when I tried the sample for 'Lamb' - trying too hard. Perhaps it's a difference between British and American humour.
|
03-29-2010, 01:04 PM | #109 |
Groupie
Posts: 183
Karma: 1053258
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Fort Vancouver
Device: nook
|
I don't think anyone has mentioned that reading The Egg and I gives us an excellent excuse to watch the movie again. If you've never seen it, Claudette Colbert plays the wife who must learn to cope with rural society. Being Claudette Colbert, she always comes across as gracious, even when she's in a state of extreme culture shock. Also, it was funny.
If, on the other hand, you like a book that's all about pandering to the literati by creating a story about characters being abducted from their plots, with in-jokes that "serious" readers of literature will appreciate then Eyre Affair is your book. I liked that sort of thing when I was a teenager, but I was a sci-fi geek, so I read the Hitch-hiker's Guide. I tried to read Eyre Affair recently, but it was just too precious. GO EGG! |
03-29-2010, 01:16 PM | #110 |
Wizard
Posts: 4,395
Karma: 1358132
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: UK
Device: Palm TX, CyBook Gen3
|
I wonder how the voting would go if we couldn't see the results before the deadline.
|
Advert | |
|
03-29-2010, 01:33 PM | #111 |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 19,832
Karma: 11844413
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Tampa, FL USA
Device: Kindle Touch
|
|
03-29-2010, 01:33 PM | #112 |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 19,832
Karma: 11844413
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Tampa, FL USA
Device: Kindle Touch
|
OK folks.. don't put off your votes any longer.... the poll ends tonight... we really don't want another tie do we?
BOb |
03-29-2010, 01:43 PM | #113 |
Bah, humbug!
Posts: 39,072
Karma: 157049943
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA
Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.
|
In the event of a tie, let's all read Lamb.
|
03-29-2010, 01:52 PM | #114 |
The Dank Side of the Moon
Posts: 35,872
Karma: 118716293
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Denver, CO
Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire
|
|
03-29-2010, 02:00 PM | #115 | |
Wizard
Posts: 4,395
Karma: 1358132
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: UK
Device: Palm TX, CyBook Gen3
|
Quote:
Voters near the deadline are likely to have a bigger impact on deciding the outcome, as they'll know which are the likely winners. |
|
03-29-2010, 02:02 PM | #116 |
Wizard
Posts: 4,395
Karma: 1358132
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: UK
Device: Palm TX, CyBook Gen3
|
|
03-29-2010, 02:18 PM | #117 | |
Resident Curmudgeon
Posts: 75,901
Karma: 134368292
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
|
Quote:
|
|
03-29-2010, 02:19 PM | #118 |
Resident Curmudgeon
Posts: 75,901
Karma: 134368292
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
|
|
03-29-2010, 02:24 PM | #119 |
Resident Curmudgeon
Posts: 75,901
Karma: 134368292
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3
|
|
03-29-2010, 02:29 PM | #120 |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 19,832
Karma: 11844413
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Tampa, FL USA
Device: Kindle Touch
|
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
MobileRead September 2010 Mobile Read Book Club Vote | pilotbob | Book Clubs | 115 | 09-30-2010 01:07 AM |
MobileRead August 2010 Mobile Read Book Club Vote | pilotbob | Book Clubs | 185 | 08-03-2010 03:16 PM |
MobileRead July 2010 Mobile Read Book Club Vote | pilotbob | Book Clubs | 184 | 07-18-2010 06:22 AM |
MobileRead May 2010 Mobile Read Book Club Vote | pilotbob | Book Clubs | 110 | 05-08-2010 12:29 PM |
MobileRead March 2010 Mobile Read Book Club Vote | pilotbob | Book Clubs | 230 | 03-13-2010 03:06 PM |